Article March 14, 1925 Issue

A doctor, writing in your issue of recent date, makes some...

Charles W. J. Tennant,—London

Methodist Times

A doctor, writing in your issue of recent date, makes some assertions about Christian Science which are neither warranted nor true. Christian Science does not attack other churches, as he asserts; it only answers in a kindly manner attacks made upon it by others. Prejudice and misrepresentation on the part of critics never keep honest people who are not satisfied with their own beliefs from investigating the religious beliefs of others. In fact, it has been found by experience that exaggerated statements, such as the critic has indulged in, cause many people to look into the subject of Christian Science for themselves.

Christian Science is the truth as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus. It is Christian, for it fulfills the command of the Founder of Christianity and performs works of healing and regeneration by the same spiritual method. It was through spiritual understanding that sin, disease, and death were destroyed by Christ Jesus, and it is in the proportion that a Christian Scientist gains the Mind of Christ that he is enabled to emulate these works to-day. Christian Science is scientific because it is susceptible of proof. The fact that our critic has not been able to prove this does not entitle him to lay aside as unscientific the evidence of millions who have. Those who come to Christian Science find their doubts removed, a demonstrable religion, a clearer understanding of God and of man's relation to Him, and a keen desire to study the Bible in order to gain its spiritual meaning, thus enabling them to overcome sin and disease through spiritual means.

Christian Science is revealing to the world that the only spiritual healing is the healing of the Christ. Our Master declared that he healed by the spirit of God, and this is the only true spiritual healing. Our critic declares that mesmerism and hypnotism, among other methods, may be practiced in conjunction with Christianity. This exhibits either a gross ignorance of Christianity or complete ignorance of the disastrous effects of these methods. The method of Christian Science has nothing in common with the methods of the carnal mind. They are the reverse of each other. The two methods and their results are described by Christ Jesus in the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew, verses 28 and 43—45.